Temporary workaround for devcontainer taking too long to build

.devcontainer/Dockerfile

@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ FROM mcr.microsoft.com/vscode/devcontainers/anaconda:0-3
 ARG NODE_VERSION="none"
 RUN if [ "${NODE_VERSION}" != "none" ]; then su vscode -c "umask 0002 && . /usr/local/share/nvm/nvm.sh && nvm install ${NODE_VERSION} 2>&1"; fi
 
+# TODO: reenable this. For now, it makes building the container take way too long (>2 hours)
 # Copy environment.yml (if found) to a temp location so we update the environment. Also
 # copy "noop.txt" so the COPY instruction does not fail if no environment.yml exists.
-COPY environment.yml* .devcontainer/noop.txt /tmp/conda-tmp/
-RUN if [ -f "/tmp/conda-tmp/environment.yml" ]; then umask 0002 && /opt/conda/bin/conda env update -n base -f /tmp/conda-tmp/environment.yml; fi \
-    && rm -rf /tmp/conda-tmp
+# COPY environment.yml* .devcontainer/noop.txt /tmp/conda-tmp/
+# RUN if [ -f "/tmp/conda-tmp/environment.yml" ]; then umask 0002 && /opt/conda/bin/conda env update -n base -f /tmp/conda-tmp/environment.yml; fi \
+#     && rm -rf /tmp/conda-tmp
 
 # [Optional] Uncomment this section to install additional OS packages.
 # RUN apt-get update && export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive \